kingdom · Anatolia and the Levant

Patina

1100 BCE – 738 BCE (approx.) · capital Kunulua

Patina, a Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Amuq plain whose founder called it Palistin, a name that may link it to the Philistines.

Origins

After the Late Bronze Age collapse, a kingdom arose in the Amuq plain around Antakya, the former Kingdom of Mukish. Inscriptions of King Taita, found in the temple of the storm god at Aleppo, call it Palistin, and its capital was Kunulua, at Tell Tayinat.

Rule and society

Its kings wrote Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions and built palaces and temples in Syrian-Hittite style; a temple at Tell Tayinat yielded an Assyrian treaty tablet. Assyrians called the land Pattin or Unqi. It lived from the fertile plain and the route to the Mediterranean.

Decline and legacy

Patina paid tribute to Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III of the Assyrian Empire. After King Tutammu rebelled, Tiglath-Pileser III captured Kunulua in 738 BCE and made the land an Assyrian province.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Patina. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/patina
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“Patina.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/patina. Accessed .
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